THE SNOW GOOSE. 
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before its divarication into the lungs, was inflexible, not 
extensile, like the rest, and rather wider in diameter. The 
gullet had an expansion before entering the stomach, which 
last was remarkably strong, the two great grinding muscles 
being nearly five inches in diameter. The stomach was 
filled with fragments of the roots of reeds, and fine sand. 
The intestines measured eight feet in length, and were not 
remarkably thick. The liver was small. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 
Latham observes that this species is very numerous at 
Hudson’s Bay, that they visit Severn river in May, and 
stay a fortnight, but go farther north to breed ; they return 
to Severn Fort the beginning of September, and stay till 
the middle of October, when they depart for the south, and 
are observed to be attended by their young, in flocks in- 
numerable. They seem to occupy also the western side of 
America, as they were seen at Aoonalashka, as well as Kam- 
tschatka. White Brant, with black tips to their wings, were 
also shot by Captains Lewis and Clark’s exploring party, near 
the mouth of the Columbia river, which were probably the 
same as the present species. Mr. Pennant says, “ They are 
taken by the Siberians in nets, under which they are decoyed 
by a person covered with a white skin, and crawling on all 
fours ; when, others driving them, these stupid birds, mistak- 
ing him for their leader, follow him, when they are entangled 
in the nets, or led into a kind of pond made for the pur- 
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